I MISSED it. It’s been six years already, since I last went out for a scouting event. The last one was the 12th National Jamboree in Palo, Leyte in the last days of 2001 up to the first few days of 2002.
I’m going back to the old times as I attend the basic training for [...]

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YOUNG AND dynamic bloggers in South Cotabato, General Santos City and Sarangani Province met yesterday for the 1st planning workshop in preparation for the 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit, which will be held in GenSan on October 25.

Sir Hecky (left) facilitated the workshop, Sir Avel (right) provided the venue and snacks, and I (center) provided the bulk of the [...]

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A FEW years ago, the horrors of closures of pre-need institutions like CAP traumatized many of us so bad that the affected planholders cursed those companies and decided right there and then to never trust them again.
That’s never gonna happen again once the Senate Bill 2077 or the Philippine Pre-Need Code of 2008 is enacted. With the Senate’s passing this bill, [...]

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FOLLOWING A tag passed on to me by Marga, I went to a site and had my blog’s readability analyzed. After a few seconds, the site’s mechanisms concluded that the level of education required to understand my blog is elementary. Great!
You, too can send your blog’s reading level!
Know how!
Here’s the Procedure:

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I’M BACK to the contemplative me — which is the normal me, as it happens.
By the way…
It’s July 21 today, so we’re two days past the rumored doomsday. And what? Are we all dead now? Fortunately, the July-18-Earthquake thing was simply someone’s attempt at becoming famous or at proving how powerful a tool is [...]

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I’VE JUST realized I’m quite into long titles these days.
Well, it’s July 18 on Friday. I’m sure, you have heard a lot about the 8.1 magnitude earthquake that was rumored to hit the Philippines. But let’s have some additional information about the said.
From another forwarded email, I have learned that there really exist doomsday predictions [...]

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I’M VERY glad, you know, that I’m not the only one who’s getting more and more excited to learn about physics. Some of my students are sometimes overly excited about the topics we’re discussing and some future topics I asked them to start reading about.
I think it’s just fine to talk about my students in [...]

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IN MY previous posts, I told you that I found it difficult to handle three year levels, and a total of seven classes a day. It was made more difficult by the fact that expectations are high and that I’m still in the adjustment stage, learning the art and trying to cope with the challenges. I actually appreciate [...]

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FINALLY, I’ve made up my mind, here’s my ten Emerging Influential Blogs in 2008 organized by Janette Toral:

MusikaCentral - It’s my music blog. Well, nobody said you couldn’t nominate your own blogs. So I did nominate my other blog. Haha. It’s only about four months old and I have lots of plans for it. My ultimate [...]

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A WARNING is circulating on the web these days about an 8.1 magnitude earthquake that will hit in the Philippines on July 18, 2008. Here’s a portion of the email, verbatim:
July 18, 2008 - Philippines will have  8.1 earthquake, thousands of people will die.
 
LET US BE ALERT AND MARK THIS DATE JULY 18, 2008, FRIDAY. LET’S [...]

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